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Professional Scala

By : Mads Hartmann, Ruslan Shevchenko
Book Image

Professional Scala

By: Mads Hartmann, Ruslan Shevchenko

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to build and contribute to Scala programs, recognizing common patterns and techniques used with the language. You’ll learn how to write concise, functional code with Scala. After an introduction to core concepts, syntax, and writing example applications with scalac, you’ll learn about the Scala Collections API and how the language handles type safety via static types out-of-the-box. You’ll then learn about advanced functional programming patterns, and how you can write your own Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to successfully build smart, efficient applications in Scala that can be compiled to the JVM.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


We have reached the end of the chapter. In this chapter, we learned various aspects of setting up the development environment. We covered the structure of a Scala project, and we identified the use of sbt for building and running projects. We covered REPL, which is a command-line interface for running Scala code. We also covered how to develop and run code over the IDEA IDE. Finally, we implemented interactions with our simple chatbot application.

In the next chapter, we will cover the structure of a Scala program and dive deep into the object-oriented properties in Scala, such as like classes, objects, and traits. We will also cover the syntax for calling functions and various parameter-passing models.